"A war between two of the major conglomerates will always have casualties, and unfortunately for us, this time we are the casualties. We aren't yet at a state where it is impossible to use Google services on Microsoft platforms, but we are moving towards a stricter ecosystem world where we might see Googlers/Gmail users on one side and Bingers/Outlook users on the other. We can only hope for the sake of technologies future and for the sake of innovation that the two companies can learn to work together in an ever expanding world of data." We can hope so, but we're talking large companies, and large companies do not care about users. Never have, never will.

They ARE out to make money, I don't forget that, but that does not negate hard working employees and their relationship with customers/clients.

And millions of Google Reader users were willing to pay even for a service that almost cost nothing for Google.

But I have learned my lesson. I don't trust Google anymore and I am preparing to be screwed even more by Google.
The single newsblur developer is awesome and really listens to his customers. The $20 per year is more than worth it and the software is completely opensource. He is an example of how I would like to use all my software.